I found the site by way of an @AndroidDev tweet [1], and I was incredibly frustrated. Their old documentation [2] was completely useless, and this is even worse. Am I supposed to purchase and learn proprietary design tools to develop an effective Android app? This turns me off to the platform as a whole.

[1]: https://twitter.com/#!/AndroidDev/status/157570583800971264

[2]: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/i...

This concerns me about my investment as a user in Twitter. Even if it's only 3.75% of Twitter the company now owns, I don't necessarily want to support the venture of a Saudi billionaire. Maybe if they are really proponents freedom of speech and the press, it isn't such a bad thing.

I'm sure you don't drive a car, either.

Yes, and here's to hoping he doesn't do any business with Citibank, directly or indirectly.

Or uses any Apple products. Or Owns a car or truck from GM. The prince has huge stakes in each

This stance paid for by the entertainment industry!

I vowed never to use Netflix again when I realized they cancel your subscription instantly instead of giving you the month you pay for (a la WoW or any other properly run service). I also take every opportunity to bad mouth them for this awful business practice. Yeah, it's in the terms, but it's shit.

Someone needs to teach them what an MVP is. I was looking forward to Diaspora, a year ago.

Yep, I'm actually kind of excited to hit the news stand in the morning in hopes of getting a few. It's definitely a first.

I hate Apple, but I'm not going to lie, I'm teary-eyed right now reading all this. I can certainly see from the comments how much he has inspired everyone, and for that I am grateful. Thanks Steve.

Same here. Tried a friend's Spotify account, and I couldn't find any of the music I've been listening to recently. Most of the stuff I listen to is relatively new that I find through The Hype Machine. Seems to me like Spotify is going to be pretty slow to add new, non-mainstream music. /hipster

The app looks really nice. Only feedback is some labels are some airline labels are missing on the search results (G2, Gingerbread).

My feedback is more specific to Hipmunk in general. I want to use and love it but the prices have been off each time I try. For instance on jetblue.com right now I can get a ticket for tomorrow JFK -> AUS at 9:30AM for $423 but on Hipmunk it's $797. I'm guessing you might be pulling the price by flight time and not flight number. There is another flight leaving at 9:30 which is $797.

That was probably a pricing update. It's one of the really annoying things that plagues everyone in this space. I see the fare on us for $434 now (which is $423 after taxes).

http://www.hipmunk.com/#!JFK.AUS,Sep30

Ah, that is quite a plague. Thanks for the info.

I agree it was probably a little bit of a lost opportunity for YC. I was interested in talking to a couple of the YC companies but it was hard to find them in the crowd.

Overall I can't complain though. Personally I met some great people at the event and got to shake hands with some alumni. It was a great experience and not a missed opportunity for myself. Thanks YC for that. I will take the sentiments toward the NYC startup scene as a challenge. :)

Yes, there were too many people. We originally expected the event to be much smaller, but a lot more people asked for invitations than we expected, and we then had to choose between increasing the size and turning away most of the people who wanted to come. With some misgivings, we chose the former. But unfortunately then it no longer felt like the informal meetup we intended. I'm not sure what to do about this problem. Maybe we just can't do meetups.

Being in attendance, I don't think the size detracted from the quality of the event. It actually made networking a lot easier (merely because there were so many different people to talk to). Being that this was the first NYC event ever, I think things went well. If you decide to do another in the future, you'll know what works and what doesn't. I hope more than anything, though, the size and enthusiasm of the crowd helped to show the desire for a strong startup community on the East Coast.

YC is, in a sense, transitioning from being a startup into being a 'big company'.

I think the answer to this is to be very selective and unfortunately for them, turn down many many people. I think this would only increase the value of the meetup for those who are selected.

Ah, you need a fake name and a disguise.

I'd suggest "Richard Feynman", in honor of the inventor of this idea, but that might not achieve the desired effect.

I don't know exactly how YCNYC worked (so this may of already happened) but my suggestion would be to do seperate groups i.e. Group 1 & Group 2 and then in the Evening you could bring together as an "After-Party" type thing to facilitate networking etc.

For instance if you were to speak as well as some of the YC Alumni then the following could happen;

Group 1 - YC Alumni - BREAK - PG

Group 2 - PG - BREAK - YC Alumni

Obviously this would add a few extra problems, including increased costs although, this could easily be solved having a small fee for attendance (again I don't know the exact details of how YCNYC worked so if it was a free meetup charging $10 say wouldn't bother people and would help to recoup the additional costs etc)

This would make the event appear much smaller than what it actually is thus, making it more informal as well as allowing, people to network in the Evening as well.